GateHouse Media purchases Provincetown Banner newspaper

Friday

GateHouse Media Inc. announced Friday it has acquired the Provincetown Banner, making it part of GateHouse Media New England's Cape Cod operations.

GateHouse Media Inc. announced Friday it has acquired the Provincetown Banner, making it part of GateHouse Media New England's Cape Cod operations.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

The company purchased the newspaper from founder and owner Alix Ritchie of Provincetown.

"We look forward to enhancing the exceptional journalism and community presence Alix and her staff have developed over the years,'' said Kirk Davis, president and chief executive of GateHouse Media New England. "This is a great fit for us and we are privileged to continue the legacy of serving the Banner readers and customers.''

The Provincetown Banner - which covers Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet - was first published in 1856.

Ritchie addressed the deal with GateHouse Media in a statement posted on the paper's Web site (www.provincetownbanner.com/articles) on Friday afternoon.

"We will be able to do more to meet the needs of our readers and our advertisers, while at the same time being part of an enterprise dedicated to the concept of community journalism and to serving this very special and unique place," she said in the statement. "They [GateHouse] have the resources to keep the source of your community news on the cutting edge, out here on the edge as we are."

Davis noted that GateHouse Media, based in Fairport, N.Y., is one of the largest media companies in the country that focuses almost exclusively on local news, information and advertising.

It is also the largest local media company in Massachusetts, operating more than 120 daily and weekly newspapers, including the MetroWest Daily News, Milford Daily News, Daily News Tribune and Daily News Transcript, and more than 160 web sites.

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